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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The time when friends and family members start to send us frantic texts about games they should and shouldn’t be purchasing for the children on their holiday lists. Taking that into consideration I...

I went a bit off the rails recently when it comes to buying new games and gaming accessories. Maybe I was shopping away my anxiety about the status of the world politically and environmentally; who knows. But the recent games...

The following article may contain spoilers for Final Fantasy XV and its surrounding universe. So Final Fantasy XV came out last week. Honestly, by now, it should be no mystery that I’m probably one of the least excited people in...

I’m currently only about halfway through the main storyline of Pokemon Moon, despite picking it up the day it was released. Most of this is due to my end of semester schedule, which is a series of late nights and...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the significance of feminist science fiction for feminist games studies, the ways our scholarship is impacted by the forms we write about and research. And I’ve been continuing to think about the idea...

The Civilization franchise has long been one of my favorites. My character on the NYMG banner, for example, is a play on a character from the Civ series. I love it. So of course, I had to buy Civilization VI...

A note: I’ve only played through on low chaos with Emily so far, so while I’ve read about high chaos choices and Corvo playthroughs, I speak from the vantage of only intimately knowing my own adventure to reclaim Emily’s throne....

It’s somewhere around 2001 or 2002. My twin sister and I have asked for a Game Boy Advance and Pokemon Silver for Christmas. My dad is not too happy about it. He tells us that gaming systems like that will...

Every now and then the LEGO community will debate the lack of diversity in minifigs. Most minifigs have the generic iconic, yellow LEGO head, but occasionally, LEGO will go outside of that and try to create more realistic representations. These...

In a recent article, “Apparent Feminism as a Methodology for Technical Communication and Rhetoric,” Erin Frost proposes a new methodology through which to understand the impact of technology and technological documentation: apparent feminism. Apparent feminism, she writes, “seeks to recognize...

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” — Terry Pratchett, Going Postal On the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Sunday November 20th, NYMG Writers Lee Hibbard and Jynx Boyne met at an event...